Signature certification

[Nicholas Bohm]

At 13:08 28/03/2001 +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
>Nicholas Bohm wrote:
>> 
>> Has anyone come across a service offered by a certification authority
>> consisting of receiving digitally signed data and certifying the signature
>> on it?  If so I would be grateful for a pointer to the CA in question.
>
>Why would you want to do that? If the CA has certified the public key,
>they can add no value to a signature that is verified by it.

So I would think.

>> This is how the Lord Chancellor's Department's Consultation Paper on
>> electronic conveyancing suggests that certification should be done.
>
>Then the Lord Chancellor's Department is a twit. Or you've misunderstood
>them.

Both are of course possible.

I've had requests for a link to the paper, which is at:

http://www.open.gov.uk/lcd/consult/general/e-conv.htm

See for yourself.

Regards

Nicholas

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